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Even critics applaud a number of Carter's moves. His Administration has redesigned several aid programs to provide more funds for the declining cities of the Northeast and Midwest and less for the booming Sunbelt. One example: 75% of the $3.5 billion in block grants for community development, approved by Congress last fall, must be spent specifically for the benefit of poor neighborhoods. In addition, his economic stimulus program made available $8 billion, enabling cities and towns to hire some 725,000 people who otherwise could not find jobs, and $4 billion for public works in areas with high unemployment...
...growth. Looking anxiously ahead, Tom McCall, then Governor of Oregon, declared in 1971: "Please come and visit us again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't come and live here." Surprisingly, the migration to the Northwest is still a trickle compared with the tide flowing to the Sunbelt, but more and more Americans, lured by the natural beauty and the way of life it fosters, are arriving. The populations of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have increased 15% during the past ten years (Florida rose 45%) and are expected to grow another 13% by 1985. More people mean...
...think, and how could a film starring Burt Reynolds be any other way? This is unfair; Reynolds saves Semi-Tough, and the fault lies not with him but with Ritchie. Sunbelt attitudes toward women are hard to define; what you tend to forget is that Scarlett O'Hara was one tough old bitch. Barbara Jane Bookman, secure in her looks and her money, might have to take a lot of grief from her stud football-playing buddies, but by God, she should give as good as she gets, and the film never captures the uneasy jocularity that is a necessary...
...ever been; he gets three yards on his own. Reynolds made what should be called the best football movie ever in The Longest Yard, and he seems to grow more in every film. I have a suspicion that 30 years from now we may dredge up all those old sunbelt epics like W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Deliverance, etc., and cherish them the way we do Casablanca now, if maybe for a different reason. For the present, though, Semi-Tough is only semi-good, in the fullest sense of the word...
...corporate shift from the older industrial cities of the Northeast to the Sunbelt has spread employment more evenly around the country. White migration from South to North has slowed to a trickle, and black migration has stopped entirely: since 1970 as many blacks have moved to the South as from the South...